Do we need a no-change publication?

[fantasai]

If 6 months elapse without significant changes to a specification, a Working Group should publish a revised Working Draft, whose status section should indicate reasons for the lack of change.

Do we need to keep this paragraph? Is it accomplishing anything?

[frivoal]

I is good to publish often, but having to publish in order to say why you're not publishing feels like busy work, and I actually doubt many are following this part of the process.

I support deleting this sentence.

[frivoal]

Made #1043 to address this

[css-meeting-bot]

The Revising W3C Process CG just discussed Drop expectation to republish document when there are no changes, and agreed to the following:

• RESOLVED: Adopt #1043 to drop the sentence about no-change publications.

The full IRC log of that discussion

Subtopic: Drop expectation to republish document when there are no changes
github: https://github.com//issues/1013
PR: https://github.com//pull/1043/files
RESOLVED: Adopt #1043 to drop the sentence about no-change publications.